Ravi Zupa

Denver, USA

Denver, USA All of Ravi Zupa’s images are drawn and painted by his hand. He considers books the best way to experience art and has spent decades studying art from cultures and movements that span history and originate from nearly all geographical regions. Being entirely self-taught, he looks for inspiration in works by German Renaissance print makers, Flemish primitives, abstract expressionists, Japanese woodblock artists, Mughal paintings, religious iconography from Europe, Asia and Pre-Columbian Latin America, and revolutionary propaganda the world over. With a distaste for ironic art or the thoughtless appropriation of culture, he integrates seemingly unrelated images in search of something universal.

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BORN

1977 in USA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016
Matthew Namour, Montreal
Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco
Black Book Gallery, Denver

2015
Black Book Gallery, Denver

2014
Black Book Gallery, Denver

2013
Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles
Lazarides, Outsiders Newcastle, UK

2012
Black Book Gallery, Denver
Mohs Exhibit, Copenhagen
Lazarides, Outsiders London

2011
Black Book Gallery, Denver
Vice Gallery, Mexico City DF, Mexico

2010
Illiterate Gallery, Denver

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017
10 Years of Love, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai

2016
Design After Dark, Denver Art Museum, Colorado

2015
Invisible College, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana
Rising, Urban Nation, Berlin
Hey Act III, La Halle Saint-Pierre, Paris
Primitive Future, Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles
Summer Group Show, Hashimoto Gallery, San Francisco

2014
Egregore, Yves Laroche, Montreal
Art Alliance Presents The Provocateurs, Chicago
Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ, USA

2012
Black Book Gallery, Denver

2011
Post No Bills, Venice, CA, USA

2009
Andenken Gallery, Denver

2008
Arspace Gallery, San Francisco
Object and thought, Denver